EngenderHealth's Online Infection Prevention Course

 

Final Exam

This final exam is designed to be taken at the end of the course. If you have not yet completed all nine course modules, please return to the Course home page and complete the modules before taking this exam.
1. Boiling is a method of sterilization.
True | False

2. Items such as pickups (lifters, cheatle forceps), suture needles, and surgical scrub brushes should not be left soaking in antiseptic or disinfectant solutions.
True | False

3. Fumigation (disinfectant fogging) with formaldehyde is an effective way to reduce contamination of surfaces such as walls and ceilings in order to prevent infection.
True | False

4. Hands should always be washed after removing gloves.
True | False

5. To reduce contamination, limit the number of people permitted into operating theaters and processing rooms.
True | False

6. If instruments will be sterilized or high-level disinfected, cleaning with detergent and water is not necessary.
True | False

7. Housekeeping staff should wear utility gloves when cleaning operating theaters and procedure rooms.
True | False

8. Proper storage of instruments and other items is as important as careful sterilization or high-level disinfection.
True | False

9. Hepatitis B can be transmitted to a health care worker through splashes of blood or other body fluids onto unbroken skin.
True | False

10. Transmission of bloodborne infections from infected health care workers to their clients is a common problem.
True | False

11. Sterilization is preferred over HLD for items that will come in contact with the bloodstream and tissues under the skin.
True | False

12. Single-use examination gloves are not acceptable for use during pelvic examination.
True | False

13. Most surgical site infections occur from contamination of the wound after the client leaves the health care facility.
True | False

14. Housekeeping equipment such as mops, brushes, sponges, and buckets do not need to be decontaminated and cleaned since those items are used with a disinfectant cleaning solution.
True | False

15. Burial sites for medical waste should not be located near water sources because of the potential to contaminate the water.
True | False
16. Proper infection prevention practices are important for:
  1. Preventing infections in service providers and other staff
  2. Preventing surgical site infections, abscesses, and pelvic inflammatory disease in clients
  3. Protecting the community from infections that originate in health care facilities
  4. All of the above
17. Decontaminating instruments and other items in a 0.5% chlorine solution:
  1. Reduces the risk of infections in facility staff by killing HIV and the hepatitis viruses
  2. Should be done after cleaning if the items are very bloody
  3. Allows instruments and other items to be reused immediately
  4. None of the above
18. Handwashing:
  1. Decreases client sickness and death
  2. Is usually performed correctly, and when appropriate in most health facilities
  3. Is not necessary if the hands appear to be clean
  4. All of the above
19. To reduce the risk of infection and injury:
  1. Recap all hypodermic needles immediately after use by holding the needle still in one hand and carefully placing the cap over the needle with the other hand
  2. When passing sharps, transfer the sharp from your hand to the other person's hand
  3. Dispose of sharp objects along with medical waste, such as used bandages and gauze
  4. None of the above
20. Housekeeping staff are at risk of infections:
  1. When cleaning administrative offices and other non-client care areas
  2. When disposing of medical waste
  3. When mixing a disinfectant cleaning solution
  4. These staff are not at risk of infections if they are not directly involved in client care activities
21. Which of the following are appropriate infection prevention practices?
  1. Changing the needle, but not the syringe, between injections
  2. Leaving a hypodermic needle inserted through the stopper of a multidose vial
  3. Using a new or processed needle and syringe to draw up medication from a multidose vial
  4. All of the above
22. HIV can be transmitted by all of the following EXCEPT:
  1. Insect bites
  2. Unprotected vaginal intercourse
  3. Breastfeeding
  4. Blood transfusion
  5. Use of contaminated syringes
23. Which of the following will likely cause contamination:
  1. Leaving gauze sponges soaking in antiseptic
  2. Pressing the cotton to the lip of the antiseptic container and inverting it
  3. Dipping cotton into the main antiseptic container
  4. All of the above
24. Which statement about surgical attire is correct:
  1. If shoe covers are not available, staff may walk around the operating room with bare feet
  2. Caps and masks worn in the operating room should be sterile
  3. Sterile surgical gloves should be considered contaminated if your gloved hands drop below the level of your waist
  4. When removing surgical gloves, always remove the first glove completely and then remove the second glove with your bare hand
25. Which of the following are considered medical waste?
  1. Outdated client records
  2. Used bandages
  3. Trash from the hospital kitchen
  4. Unused condoms
  5. None of the above


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